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HCA is thrilled to partner with First Giving for our 11^th Annual Walk for Affordable Housing to make it easier for you to support you neighbors who desperately need affordable housing in our community.

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Save the Date: Walk 2012!

HCA’s Eleventh Annual Walk for Affordable Housing

Sunday, April 29, 2012

1:00-3:00 PM

Jason Russell House

(corner of Massachusetts Avenue and Jason Street)

Stay tuned for more info!

HCA Welcomes Mary-Anne Morrison to our Board of Directors!

HCA is thrilled to welcome Mary-Anne Morrison to our Board of Directors!

Mary-Anne retired from the Massachusetts Department of Housing and Community Development (DHCD) in April 2011, having served as its Director of Rental Assistance with oversight responsibility for its 27,000-unit federal and state rental assistance portfolio, the Commonwealth’s nine Housing Consumer Education Centers and the Rental Assistance for Families in Transition Program. She began her affordable housing career working on public housing issues in 1971. In 1975, she was asked to assist in the start-up of DHCD’s first allocation of 1,056 Section 8 units. For the following 36 years until her retirement, Mary-Anne shepherded DHCD’s Section 8 program’s growth to 19,500 units, making it the country’s seventh largest Housing Choice Voucher Program and one of its most diversified, with numerous set-asides for special populations, a very large project-based voucher component, and the sixth largest Family Self Sufficiency (FSS) voucher program in the nation.

Currently, Mary-Anne is in the process of founding her own business, Mac3advocates, which will offer family field trip fellowships to parents participating on the Section 8 FSS program and their children. She and her husband, John, and their two children, Ben and Liz, moved to Arlington in 1987.

HCA's New 25th Anniversary Video!

Check out HCA's 25th Anniversary Video!

25th Anniverary Celebration Dinner: A Great Success!

Thanks to the generous support of friends like our lead sponsor, Cambridge Savings Bank, our 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner was a tremendous success! Master of Ceremonies Ray Magliozzi led us through an amazing night filled with 350 of HCA’s closest friends, laughter, tears, great food, memories of missed friends and the celebration of HCA’s 25 years of accomplishments.

Governor Patrick, who was not able to attend the dinner due to an out of state obligation, saluted HCA in a sincere video, “you are working everyday to get families back on their feet and find or keep a place to call home…your work is a testament to our best values.” He also warmly remarked, “Brian [Greeley] dedicated his life to public service…his spirit is an inspiration to us all.”

Click here to view photos from the event—and don’t forget to “Like” HCA on Facebook!

HCA’s Capitol Square Project Awarded State Funding!

We are thrilled to report that on Monday, October 17th, HCA’s Capitol Square Apartments project was awarded critical funding from the Massachusetts Dept. of Housing and Community Development (DHCD)!

The awarded funds, including both low-income housing tax credits and DHCD housing subsidies, complete the funding needed to proceed with Capitol Square Apartments, HCA’s latest affordable housing project that will restore three turn-of-the-century apartment buildings in East Arlington and provide thirty-two (32) units of affordable rental housing. Please take a look at the full press release from the Governor’s office.

Without the tremendous support from the HCA community, projects like Capitol Square Apartments would not be possible. Thank you!

Three Reasons to RSVP TODAY!

Three NEW reasons to RSVP today for HCA's 25th Anniversary Celebration Dinner:

1) Governor Deval Patrick is our Special Guest Speaker;

2) We will be enjoying an amazing dinner from one of Arlington's top restaurants: Scutra;

3) And you can now RSVP Online! Just go to: www.housingcorparlington.org/dinner

See you on November 3!